Keep Thinking
Jul. 28th, 2003 01:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaArrgh . . . it's too easy to think that once you've figured out a true thing, you're finished. I know better. Of all people, I know better. So why am I doing it again?
Multiple correct answers. The vast majority of questions have multiple correct answers. I know this. The multiplicity lies at my own center, and at the center of my universe.
The elitism that dwells in my central pillars is based on monistic thought. All elitism is. I am screwing up every time I let the elitism drive my actions. It's going to color my perceptions, but I choose whether or not I act on it.
I owe all my kids compassion. I am water as much as I am air. I can give it to them.
I respect everyone's inherent worth and dignity, even if I do not respect their intelligence.
I am a screaming elitist, and the gods have a duty for me that requires that elitism. I cannot fight for the rights and the needs of the gifted unless I believe that they, as a group, need and should get more than the mundanes. But I cannot allow that belief to mean that simply being of the gifted means that you are more morally deserving than another student.
And being a Storm Knight, being Fringeworthy, not being a Muggle - whatever it is that marks some of us - is not inherently based on intelligence, or even the broader category of being G/T. If I narrow my vision, I'll miss a few. And they're all too precious to miss.
We are all, or at least almost all, born Fringeworthy. I've worked the one-year-old room; I know that. It's still a majority at four. What happens between four and nine? Why is our socialization so screwed that it makes us unspecial, makes us stupid?
I am a screaming elitist.
I respect the inherent worth and dignity of every individual.
Very well, I contradict myself.
Multiple correct answers. The vast majority of questions have multiple correct answers. I know this. The multiplicity lies at my own center, and at the center of my universe.
The elitism that dwells in my central pillars is based on monistic thought. All elitism is. I am screwing up every time I let the elitism drive my actions. It's going to color my perceptions, but I choose whether or not I act on it.
I owe all my kids compassion. I am water as much as I am air. I can give it to them.
I respect everyone's inherent worth and dignity, even if I do not respect their intelligence.
I am a screaming elitist, and the gods have a duty for me that requires that elitism. I cannot fight for the rights and the needs of the gifted unless I believe that they, as a group, need and should get more than the mundanes. But I cannot allow that belief to mean that simply being of the gifted means that you are more morally deserving than another student.
And being a Storm Knight, being Fringeworthy, not being a Muggle - whatever it is that marks some of us - is not inherently based on intelligence, or even the broader category of being G/T. If I narrow my vision, I'll miss a few. And they're all too precious to miss.
We are all, or at least almost all, born Fringeworthy. I've worked the one-year-old room; I know that. It's still a majority at four. What happens between four and nine? Why is our socialization so screwed that it makes us unspecial, makes us stupid?
I am a screaming elitist.
I respect the inherent worth and dignity of every individual.
Very well, I contradict myself.
